Sentences with phrase «leading publishers like»

When Blio launches, they will have over 1 million free books as well as books from bestselling authors from leading publishers like Hachette, HarperCollins, Random House, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Wiley, Elsevier and others.

The company has signed leading publishers like Pearson, McGraw Hill, Wiley, Kaplan, Elsevier, DK and Lonley Planet.

How did the idea for a developer - led publisher like Appynation come about?

Not exact matches

But moving to digital distribution would not only cut out the retailers but could also lead developers — the companies that create the content — to go straight to the first parties and leave out the third party publishers, like the relationship that exists between them and Apple.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

None of these competitors has the learnings and experience running a leading digital marketplace like Gameflip.com, an existing user base of 2M commerce focused gamers, decades of experience as a $ 100M game publisher (our team founded Aeria Games), or relationships with top global game publishers and developers that Gameflip does.

As my responsibilities have changed, I have come to realize that professional membership organizations like AAAS (the publisher of Science and ScienceCareers.org) and the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)-- the organization I direct — provide among the most effective networking opportunities that you can find, leading more often than you might imagine to new professional opportunities, as well as building a strong and lasting sense of community.

My comment came to say: Say yes when they announce MK8, but don't say «I don't need / want that game» when a publisher says they're widening the catalogue of a rival without considering WiiU, because it's ridiculous fanboy and it may lead that in the duture you can't enjoy games from third party that you like, let's say AC, CoD -LRB-... xD), ok, or good games: Dragon Quest, Kingdom Heart, for example.

It's really awesome to see a publisher raising awareness for a cause like breast cancer, especially considering it is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths among women in the United States.

Publisher Hachette and Amazon ended Thursday an acrimonious feud over online book sales that highlighted Amazon's market dominance and fuelled protests from leading authors like John Grisham and Stephen King.

With only one of the «Big 5» publishers currently signed on to both Scribd and Oyster, book availability seems like one area that libraries lead on, at least for now.

Publishing is changing though, and publishers like Harmony Ink Press, who specialise in LGBT + YA fiction are leading the charge.

Some of the surprises in the study, though, included most of the publishers» wariness of enhanced ebooks, with most saying that enhancements like embedded video or hyperlinks did not lead to an increase in sales, or led to a marginal increase at best.

Several independent authors weighed in on the discussion, some pointing fingers at the traditional publishing industry and how its business practices lead to situations like this, while others were slightly more supportive of the publishers, acknowledging that situations like this one won't arise in self - publishing because an author can't pay himself a $ 50,000 advance.

Unnecessary obstacles like ebookstores that lack search capabilities and superfluous software downloads from each publisher just to read digital editions of many titles have led many Japanese readers to sit back and watch where the ebook trend goes.

One of the stumbling blocks for digital publishers that originally led them to focus on one vast market of consumers was discoverability, an issue that many app developers still holds them back since app stores can feel like the proverbial haystack for content.

Potential banana skins abound From simple things like Amazon's patent for reselling ebook licences (bound to have an impact on ebook sales especially of lead titles if it were ever to be put into practice) or like discovering that despite having a great product your brand just doesn't resonate with consumers beyond your core audience and hence you lose a bundle of cash trying to sell them tablets or realizing that your main competitor is not the rival publisher of literary novels or commercial non-fiction but a game in which trajectory considerations are a more important aspect of gameplay than would normally be considered cool and various music video fads from Gangnam Style to Harlem Shake.

We collaborate with publishers and content aggregators such as Greenwood Publishing, World Bank Publications and leading organizations like SPIE, JSTOR and OCLC to help them with conversion projects from print & electronic files into proprietary XML formats and different eBook formats such as ePub, mobipocket etc..

Built by former designers and engineers from world - leading tech companies like Google and Facebook, it improves every day thanks to feedback from readers, authors, and publishers.

Somewhere after the clickbait headline, these articles invariably state (somewhere) something like this: ``... the latest sales numbers from leading publishers show a decline in e-books...» Well, sure — because their ebooks (depicted in purple in the authorearnings graphic at left) are drastically overpriced, and the indie / self - pubbed ebooks (depicted in blue) continue to gain ground with readers, pushing Big Pub's figures ever lower.

Franchises like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft have become cultural institutions and tradeable names, and on the back of their success the CEO of leading game publisher Activision received an 800 percent pay raise, to nearly $ 65 million, last year.

With a respected publisher like Ubisoft leading the way and renewed interest from the genre's forefather at hand, we might be in for a bit of a gaming renaissance.

In an open letter, Vigil lead combat designer Ben Cureton expressed his sadness that Vigil had not been picked up by a publisher like its sister studios and suggested that the developer would be breaking up having failed to find a buyer.

Activision Publishing is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment for various consoles, handheld platforms and PC, including blockbuster franchises like Call of Duty ®, Skylanders ®, and Destiny ®.

With Switchcars nearing its release, Altfuture caught attention not only of the biggest PC press and indie publishers, but it was eventually funded by Vlambeer — the famous indie studio leading the action rogue - like market at that moment.

In an interview with The Penny Arcade Report, Jean - Max Morris, creative director of the game, said some publishers claimed that a game with a female lead wouldn't sell, despite the persistent and regular success of such series as Metroid and Tomb Raider, as well as one - offs like Mirror's Edge.

As Gaming Trend's Lead News Editor, I have written up dozens of news stories on patch notes, apologies from developers and publishers for broken games, and frankly been subject to quite a bit of disappointment when new IP like Destiny, Titanfall, and Watch Dogs, games with enough hype to set the world on fire, were mediocre at worst, and underwhelming at best.

Today Nintendo unveiled some information about its new system like the data and price, that led several publishers to tell us all about their new games.

13th September 2012 - Today Nintendo unveiled some information about its new system like the data and price, that led several publishers to tell us all about their new games.

Well, simply put, they feel, like I do in my less forgiving moments, that the success of things like Call of Duty is leading publishers to finance a whole slew of «safe sequels» — games they can rely on to bring in a tidy profit — rather than taking risks with their revenue and funding a wider variety of more interesting or different titles.

«Consoles are a perfect fit for action - oriented MMORPGs like Neverwinter, and we are thrilled to be one of the first publishers to bring premium free - to - play titles to leading next - gen platforms.

By the eighties, Carswell had displaced them all as it became the leading publisher of legal information and new players like Maritime Law Book took a share of the market.

This leads to a discussion of the need to act less like an advertiser and more like a like publisher, entertainment company or party planner, and the need to rethink the way you create relationships (or conversations) with consumers before it's too late.

Leading education publishers like Pearson, the largest, have been providing schoolbooks on the iPad for 3 years.

It's really awesome to see a publisher raising awareness for a cause like breast cancer, especially considering it is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths among women in the United States.

Robyn Greenspan writes like a journalist; thinks like a marketer; leads like an educator; operates like a publisher; and leverages new media and digital communications like a social technologist.